Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking Stalinist bureaucracy wants to take a swipe at Hanoi because it believes China must reign supreme in Southeast Asia and Vietnam is in the way. But the connection to the Sino-Soviet hostilities and the clear collusion of the Chinese invasion with impeialist aims are not a minor element. This is not a simple conflict between two workers states China is acting as the cat's paw of U.S. imperialism...
...socialists the Spartacus Youth League called for China's immediate withdrawal from Vietnam and an end to China's alliance with U.S. imperialism. We called on all labor militants to stop the shipment of any military goods to China and, addressing ourselves to Soviet workers we called on the USSR to honor its treaty with Vietnam...
Reflecting the ideological pressure of Carter's anti-Soviet "human rights" crusade, not only liberals but self-proclaimed "radicals" equate China's invasion of Vietnam with Vietnam's military conflict with Cambodia. For liberals and pacifists all invasions are equal. Not so for Marxists What is key for usin an analysis of the class forces involved. We are partisans of the proletariat and defend their interests against those of the bourgeoisie. As Trotskyists, we understand that what is at the root of the conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia is the rival nationalism inherent in all Stalinist bureaucracies. The Stalinist "theory...
...Trotskyist analysis of the Soviet Union and the other deformed workers states is that the economic gains of the anti-capitalist revolutions remain intact; i.e. there is no bourgeoisie, private property has been collectivized and there is a planned economy. But the self-serving Stalinist bureaucracies have politically expropriated the working class by excluding the most elementary expression of proletarian democracy: workers soviets. We give no support to one Stalinist regime over another but call for political revolution against the bureaucracies whose class-collaborationist policies sabotage the very existence of the collective property forms upon which their states rest...
...call for the Soviet Union to honor its treaty is an appeal to the Soviet workers to break from Brezhnev's policy of detente. There can be no "peaceful coexistence" with the sinister imperialist cold warriors, who for all their "human rights" talk are actively dedicated to overturning the revolutions which have driven them from one-third of the globe and which lay the basis for building a world socialist society...